Art History For Dummies
by Jesse Bryant Wilder, MA, MAT
Art History For Dummies
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About the Author
Jesse Bryant Wilder is the publisher and editor of the NEXUS interdisciplinary texts series (www.nexusbooks.org), which includes Romeo & Juliet & the Renaissance; Macbeth & the Dark Ages; Julius Caesar & Ancient Rome, From Republic to Empire; Antigone & the Greek World; The Lion in Winter & the Middle Ages; The Harlem Renaissance; and The Grapes of Wrath & the American Dream. Each NEXUS volume connects the history, art history, art, music, and science of a major period to a literary work that reflects the period.
Jesse has garnered numerous writing awards. He has written and edited hundreds of articles on art, theater, cinema, and music for national and regional magazines and newspapers, including American Theatre and Film Comment. He is the principal writer for NEXUS.
Jesse is also the creator of the Web site Europes Most Spectacular Festivals (www.eurofestivals.com) and the co-author of two medical books, Thyroid Disorders and Stress and Your Body, published by the Cleveland Clinic Press. He is the author of several screenplays and plays, a published poet and fiction writer, as well as a former lecturer in the Kent State University Department of English.
Authors Acknowledgments
I would like to thank several outstanding art historians for their advice and support. Above all I am grateful to Dr. John Garton from the Cleveland Institute of Art and author of Grace and Grandeur: ThePortraiture of Paolo Veronese, for his highly insightful and continual support throughout this proj- ect. I would also like to thank Stephen Fliegel, Assistant Curator of Early Western Art, Cleveland Museum of Art; Dr. David Bernstein, professor of History and Art History at Sarah Lawrence College; Dr. Francis V. OConnor, editor of Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the WPA Federal Art Project; and Dr. Jenifer Neils, chair of the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University, all of whom have been a great help to me as writers and consultants for NEXUS projects. Their past support has rubbed off significantly on this book.
I am very grateful to my supportive and talented project editor, Elizabeth Kuball, and my acquisitions editor, Stacy Kennedy, under whose tutelage we developed a top-notch table of contents. I also want to thank my agent Coleen OShea and her colleague Marilyn Allen from the Allen OShea Literary Agency for offering me this project, as well as the editors of Wiley Publishing for accepting me into their stable of writers.
I want to thank my excellent technical editor, Thomas Larson, PhD, Santa Barbara City College; Wiley acquisitions director Joyce Pepple, for her tremendous support; and Michelle Hacker, Carmen Krikorian, and Erin Calligan Mooney, for helping to acquire all the images in this publication. I would also like to thank publisher Diane Steele for her support.
In addition, I am grateful to sculptor Brinsley Tyrrell for the information he provided regarding earthworks artist Robert Smithson, and to Harold B. Nelson, director of the Long Beach Museum of Art, for sharing his vast knowledge on the Golden Age of American Enameling with me. Above all I want to thank my wife, Gloria Wilder, who is my muse, editor, and all-around helper as well as my very warm-blooded arts resource.
Dedication
I dedicate this book to my wife and best friend, Gloria Wilder, a great traveling partner, a brilliant cook, an inspirational and simply superb middle-school art teacher, and a painter, ceramist, and photographer with a very discerning eye.
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